# Report 2021-04

## News

 - [The Little-Known Data Broker Industry Is Spending Big Bucks LobbyingCongress](https://themarkup.org/privacy/2021/04/01/the-little-known-data-broker-industry-is-spending-big-bucks-lobbying-congress)
 - [These Companies Track Millions Of Cars—Immigration And Border Police Have Been Grabbing Their Data](https://www.forbes.com/sites/thomasbrewster/2021/04/01/these-companies-track-millions-of-cars-immigration-and-border-police-have-been-grabbing-their-data/)
 - [LexisNexis to Provide Giant Database of Personal Information to ICE](https://theintercept.com/2021/04/02/ice-database-surveillance-lexisnexis/)
 - [Privacy activist Max Schrems claims Google Advertising ID on Android is unlawful, files complaint in France](https://www.theregister.com/2021/04/07/max_schrems_google_complaint/)
 - [P&G worked with China trade group on tech to sidestep new Apple privacy rules](https://www.marketwatch.com/story/p-g-worked-with-china-trade-group-on-tech-to-sidestep-new-apple-privacy-rules-11617904690)
 - [Google gamed its ad auction system to favor its own ads, generated $213 million](https://appleinsider.com/articles/21/04/11/google-bernanke-revealed-in-ad-business-antitrust-lawsuit-error)
 - [Nielsen, Deloitte, PwC And P&G All Helped Draft The CAID Spec](https://www.adexchanger.com/mobile/nielsen-deloitte-pwc-and-pg-all-helped-draft-the-caid-spec/)
 - [Data Brokers Are a Threat to Democracy](https://www.wired.com/story/opinion-data-brokers-are-a-threat-to-democracy/)
 - [School custodian refuses to download phone app that monitors location, says it got her fired](https://www.cbc.ca/news/gopublic/tattleware-privacy-employment-1.5978337)
 - [Tag Barnakle One Year Later: 120+ More Revive Adserver Hacks](https://blog.confiant.com/tag-barnakle-one-year-later-120-more-revive-adserver-hacks-f3e5b3bc8e70)
 - [Mexico moves to require biometric data from cellphone users](https://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/news/nation-world/story/2021-04-14/mexico-moves-to-require-biometric-data-from-cellphone-users)
 - [TikTok sued for billions over use of children's data](https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-56815480)
 - [Why does my Jio Set-Top Box ping Facebook so much?](https://sidb.in/2021/04/21/Jio-STB-Facebook.html)
 - [All new Renault models will rate drivers based on collected data](https://tekdeeps.com/renault-and-dacia-put-a-speed-limiter-of-180-km-h-on-all-their-models/)
 - [Why Google Should Stop Logging Contact-Tracing Data](https://blog.appcensus.io/2021/04/27/why-google-should-stop-logging-contact-tracing-data/)
 - [Experian API Exposed Credit Scores of Most Americans](https://krebsonsecurity.com/2021/04/experian-api-exposed-credit-scores-of-most-americans/)

## Data Breaches

 - [GitHub Arctic Vault likely contains leaked MedData patient records](https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/github-arctic-vault-likely-contains-leaked-meddata-patient-records/)
 - [533 million Facebook users’ phone numbers leaked on hacker forum](https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/533-million-facebook-users-phone-numbers-leaked-on-hacker-forum/)
 - [No password required: Mobile carrier exposes data for millions of accounts](https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2021/04/no-password-required-mobile-carrier-exposes-data-for-millions-of-accounts/)
 - [Over 70,000 SSNs and 600,000 stolen credit cards leaked after Swarmshop hack](https://www.group-ib.com/blog/swarmshop)
 - [Scraped data of 500 million LinkedIn users being sold online, 2 million records leaked as proof](https://cybernews.com/news/stolen-data-of-500-million-linkedin-users-being-sold-online-2-million-leaked-as-proof-2/)
 - [Clubhouse data leak: 1.3 million user records leaked online for free](https://cybernews.com/security/clubhouse-data-leak-1-3-million-user-records-leaked-for-free-online/)
 - [Indian Brokerage Firm Upstox Suffers Data Breach Leaking 2.5 Millions Users' Data](https://thehackernews.com/2021/04/indian-brokerage-firm-upstox-suffers.html)
 - [ParkMobile Breach Exposes License Plate Data, Mobile Numbers of 21M Users](https://krebsonsecurity.com/2021/04/parkmobile-breach-exposes-license-plate-data-mobile-numbers-of-21m-users/)
 - [Geico data breach exposed customers' driver's license numbers](https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/geico-data-breach-exposed-customers-drivers-license-numbers/)
 - [Reverb discloses data breach exposing musicians' personal info](https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/reverb-discloses-data-breach-exposing-musicians-personal-info/)
 - [345,000 sensitive legal documents from the Philippines government have been exposed online](https://restofworld.org/2021/philippines-data-exposure/)
